διωστήρ
carrying-pole, bar
Where this word appears
Every passage where διωστήρ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 38:4 διωστήρ wide enough for the staves, so that men should bear the ark with them.
- Exodus 38:10 διωστήρ and cast for it four rings: two on the one side and two on the other side, broad, so that men should lift it with the staves in them.
- Exodus 38:11 διωστήρ And he made the staves of the ark and of the table, and gilded them with gold.
- Exodus 39:14 διωστήρ and they brought the garments to Moses, and the tabernacle, and its furniture, its bases and its bars and the posts;
- Exodus 40:20 διωστήρ And he took the testimonies, and put them into the ark; and he put the staves by the sides of the ark.
About this word
About this word
διωστήρ (diōstḗr), “carrying-pole, bar,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
